Southampton Rumours Archive July 01 2013

01 Jul 2013 21:15:05
What you lot dreaming of. We already have the best striker in England the best keeper Poland has, great fullbacks awsome midfield and a terrific Frenchman give them some good cover and watch in August can't wait

Urrr. What? Not sure Lambert is the best in England. Van Persie is in England. He did get the most of any English striker though. Still think we need to improve a lot for next season to achieve the ambition, especially seeing as Swansea seem to have made some pretty efficient signings so far. This league only gets tougher unfortunately.

Assuming you meant best English striker, I AGREE!

Although I think most non-Saints fans would go for Wayne Rooney so perhaps I'm biased.

Lenny

I watched them in April and May and if that's anything to go by, I'm not exactly looking forward to seeing them in August!

Ricky very underrated and perhaps unlucky to have spent most of his career in the lower divisions. He is 31 and far as I can see he is not getting any quicker.

Long term stuff for saints which should in the main mean bringing in good younger players and improving their game. Going down the route of bringing highly paid older professionals no longer wanted by their current club is not what we want.

My own feeling is that the prem will be harder than ever this year what with the money that teams have to invest in their squads. Mid table may be as good as it gets.

01 Jul 2013 19:14:28
Southampton reported to have tabled a bid for Leeds 19 yr old starlet Sam Byram. 7. 5 m.

£7.5million? No way is he worth that kind of money.

No chance will they spend the same on him as they did with Lovren

Far too much money

No way would it be 8. 5 Million.

3-4m max never 7.5m good player though

Worth well more than that, is a better play than clyne, has similar features to bale at that age, would be around 10 million but doubt he would leave Leeds united for Southampton, leeds are a huge club

Haha better than clyne, as if, clyne is the best right fullback in the premier league by a country mile

st stuie

01 Jul 2013 18:32:28
I hope we add cover to our team through the championship with English players, spend a bit more on a Winger who should be good enough to rotate with our current wingers and then spend big on a striker, I don't see DM as a priority as we have Cork, Shneiderlin, Davies and Prowse. So I reckon Arron Cresswel 2.5m (Ipswich, 23 has had a good season starting a lot of games), Adam Henley 3m (Blackburn, 19 can play RB or LB made 22 appearances for Blackburn last season good potential) then as for a winger I'd like Scot Sinclair 6-7m and a big money striker, as much as I'd love Dalmio 18m, I don't see it happening for the fee we'd have to pay would be most of our budget, I'd rather get Morrata for 8m or Adrian 7m (as Athletico Madrid might be getting Obsvaldo) or even Bojan would be class, thoughts?

I agree with some of what you are saying, but frankly, we should be signing bolasie and Ince. its a friggin no brainer. Any one who is young, english and in/near the champ team of the year should have been on the list. Especially after how well our League 1/championship team have done this season. any more who come in will be entering into a settled and more experienced team with far easier fixtures than last seasons start.

We need players who are better than what we have, there's no point on buying a player just to sit on the bench, and unfortunately better players aren't English.

We do need cover for Cork and spider, Davis and JWP are more attacking players and as shown at the beginning and end of last season Cork and Spider are missed plus if we pull off either wanyama or nainggolan or someone of similar ability then spider can go forward a lot more

As real madrid are after suarez/cavani we really try our luck with callejon excellent already and a great young prospect

So, we bring in MP, who is used to S. American football and experienced in the Spanish League and--he is going to go out and bring in a number of players from the Championship!LOL

How do you think the majority of such players would cope with Saints style of play? Some would do so in time, but that's no good for the squad at this moment. Will be surprised if more than one player joins from lower English leagues.

Technically, even the best young players like Ince have been shown to be a long way behind some other countries players in the same age group-or did I miss the huge success our youth teams had this summer?

Saint Martin

I don't see the point of raiding the championship for players personally, with the exception of Ince (off to Cardiff) and Austin ( linked with us!). We have a good crop of youngsters coming through and the academy seems to be as good as ever in terms of feeding the first team squad. That combined with Sensible but bold International signings is what will drive us on and up. COYS!

Oh and also Pochetino favours using young home grown players as shown by his time at Espanyol and home grown also means English in this case but I think our big money striker will hopefully come from La Liga

But what's the point on spending loads of money to sign players better than Shaw and Clyne when they are both easily good enough for our first team and have the potential to be top class players, yet you would have has waste money on unneeded players who maybe very good, someones got to sit on the bench and provide cover, no one wants to but somebody has to and would you rather have Shaw and Clyne on the bench? As some of our star performers last season, I'd rather they played to be honest, I still think Davies could cover DM but you're probably right as he has been played as an AM, and maybe St Martin if more premier league clubs signed young english players from the championship, through having premier league experience they'd fare better in big tournaments and as we have the money we should set an example for that and by us being successful other up and coming teams like us will be encouraged to do the same.

Plenty of good cover for lb in forren and targett, rb Cork can play, and I can see us playing yoshida or maybe lovren there against the more physical teams again. I don't see us buying another full back tbh

If were sat buying average talent from the championship just to sit on the bench and develop, just cause they're English, whilst other teams are going abroad and getting gems like mitchu, then we'll be left behind. Yes, having English players is nice but when they don't compare to foreign players who are better and at a lower price, I think we have to lose the sentiment we have for English players.

Michu has been a sensation at Swansea but not sure he will be as effective this season - no will Swansea finish anywhere near top ten.

I say we need to to be signing quality players in certain positions, where we lack players in and players that we expect to be in/ rotated with our current first team, so for a striker and DM, but we don't NEED to be spending loads on positions we just need cover for, so we could use the championship for certain positions

But Fox is a perfectly good top third of championship player and everyone saw how out of his depth he was. There's no point in buying average players for cover, we need to sign players who will push every other player in that position to be better and to put 110% in, not to just sit on the bench. Especially since were looking to be a top six team, not one of those teams buy a player just to be cover

01 Jul 2013 13:32:05
This morning I have heard that saints are linked with defensive midfielder romulo monteiro from spartak moscow.
rumored price is £10million

He is injured and not expected to be fit again until January 2014.

01 Jul 2013 11:18:25
Nicklas Bendtner has a choice of 5 clubs one of them is southampton

Oh my god anyone but Bendtner. Average player with a massive ego.

Old news! being doing the rounds for weeks!

You need confidence as a player
hardly call ronaldo shy

Average player, massive wages!

PLEASE GOD NO!!!!

Most likely to Frankfurt. Chill.

01 Jul 2013 10:11:48
Any news today